Welcome to Saturday's Critters!
Hello and happy Saturday!
If you love all God's creatures like I do and also like to blog about them and take critter photos this is where you can share your critter post. Link up your post and share your critters, join in with my critter party ! You can share any kind of critters the real ones, pretend ones, statues and paintings, a new or old post!
Wow, can you believe today is Saturday's Critters # 500. I am also celebrating my 14th blog anniversary which was on the 13th of July. Thanks to all who participate and love critters! I am very thankful for all of my critter loving bloggers, some have been linking up with Saturday's Critters since the very first post on December 7, 2013. Thank you everyone!
For this blog anniversary and # 500 Saturday's critters post, I tried to highlight some of my favorite birds and critters. Photos were taken from my Saturday's Critter posts. There is one photo for each month from the period of Dec 2013 to July 2023 in a mosaic. I did add some links to a few of the original posts.
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Dec 2013, one of my earliest critter post, taken on a snowy winter day. The mosaic looks like I had a theme of red going on. The red color of the Cardinals and winterberries really pop. My post includes the Northern Cardinals, Mourning Doves, Carolina Wren, Dark-eyed Junco and more Cardinals.
2014 was a year of good and bad memories, the good part was I retired from my job after 30 1/2 years the bad part it was the year we lost our Goldie Girl. Photos are our Goldie Girl, Blue Jay with peanut on our deck, gulls with Black Scoter in Ocean City, Alpacas with a cow at the zoo. Second row: Belize birds, Night Heron and Egret rookeries in Maryland and York Pa, backyard Scarlet Tanager with Bluebird, Ruby-throated Hummingbird. Bottom row: Colorado Rocky Mountain NP birds, Ocean City, Terns with Black Skimmers, Heinz NWR in Philadelphia and an American Bittern in Chincoteague NWR Virginia.
2015 Jan 2015 pair of Hooded Mergansers, Edwin Forsythe NJ, Feb 2015 Nibbles our new grandpuppy, March 2015 Florida birds are the Roseate Spoonbills in the Everglades Fl, April 2015 Manatees Merritt Island FL, May 2015. Second row: two Little Blue Herons with a Wood duck at North Point SP, June 2015, Virginia Rail seen in Havre De Grace Md, July 2015 White Pelicans with Whistling Ducks in Ocala Fl, Aug 2015, Oystercatcher in Cape May NJ, Sept 2015. Bottom row: Fritillary Butterfly backyard, Oct 2015 various backyard warblers, Nov 2015 Rhinoceros Auklet in Washington State, Dec 2015 Bald Eagle at Conowingo Md.
2016 January started with a visit to Assateague, seeing the ponies. An American Tree Sparrow made an appearance on my deck, The Sandhill Cranes were seen on a trip to Tennessee, the following are yard birds: the Red-bellied Woodpecker, Pine Warbler, Carolina Wren. Second row: Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, the neighbor GB Heron Rookery, Downy Woodpecker, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Bottom row: Cape May Warbler, Nashville Warbler and the last two are Florida birds: the Reddish Egret and a Green Heron This was an exciting year, in July 2016 we bought a home in Lakeland Florida. We moved there in Oct 2016. The birds and critters in Florida were a main attraction for me.
2017 We lived in Florida until March 2017, the first 5 photos: Jan Glossy Ibis, Feb the Yellow-crowned Night Heron, March the Circle B Alligator, April the Barred owls in Circle B, Second row: May is the Common Snipe are from Florida, June is the Gray Jay is from our Washington State trip, July is the YC Night Heron rookery in Baltimore, Aug are the Avocets in Bombay Hook. Bottom row: Sept our backyard bull frog, Oct , a pair of Northern Flickers, Nov is a Great-horned Owl nest and Dec the Brown Pelican in Sunset Beach NC.
2018 I included a lot of my yard birds and some birds seen during my travels. Starting with the top row is the Blue Jay, Red-tailed Hawk, Purple Sandpiper seen Ocean City Md, a pair of Pine Warblers with a Downy Woodpecker. Middle row is the Yellow-rumped Warbler with a Goldfinch, Summer Tanager, Great Blue heron on our deck railing, Black Swallowtail. Bottom row: Bombay Hook Great Egret tree. a Screech Owl at my front window, Clapper Rail and my Eastern Bluebirds.
2019 Top row are the Snow Buntings seen in North Point SP, Iguana in south Florida, a pair of Purple Finches and a Brown Thrasher with a squirrel. Middle row: Two backyard Pileated Woodpecker, Prettyboy Great Blue Heron rookery, Monarch Butterfly and a Black-necked Stilt at Bombay Hook NWR. Bottom row: Sept trip to Iceland various Iceland birds, Cooper's Hawk , Black bear seen on Blueridge Pkwy and a backyard Northern Cardinal.
2020 in the top row are the White Ibis, Coots with an alligator at Pinckney Island NWR SC, Brown Pelicans in Florida, backyard Pine Warbler and Snow Geese and Tundra Swans at Blackwater NWR. Middle row are a pair of American Goldfinches, two Downey Woodpeckers, Granddogs Winnie, Chewy and Nibbles, two Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterflies. Bottom row: Backyard Cape May Warbler, Belted Kingfisher, our dog for a day the Corgi Tater Tot and the Bald Eagle at Conowingo.
2021 the top row: backyard Pine Siskin, Eastern Bluebirds, Long-tailed Ducks Delaware Indian River Inlet, backyard Red-breasted Nuthatch. Middle row: backyard Red-headed Woodpecker, Prettyboy Blackburnian Warbler, family of raccoons at Bombay Hook, Scarlet Tanager at Prettyboy. Bottom row: Osprey at Blackwater NWR, Cattle Egret at Chincoteague NWR, Prettyboy pair of Yellow-bellied Sapsucker and a Prettyboy Winter Wren.
2022 the top row: Chincoteague NWR ponies, backyard Tufted Titmouse, Prettyboy Trumpeter Swans and Friendly Farms ducks, Prettyboy Hermit Thrush and granddogs. Middle row is a wood Duck at North Point SP, backyard Veery and Scarlet Tanager, backyard Carolina Chickadee, Prettyboy Yellow-billed Cuckoo. Bottom row: backyard White-tailed Deer, Kauai Birds, Ruby-crowned Kinglet and a Merlin in Chincoteague NWR.
Dec 2022 extra, birds seen on our Nov 2022 Jamaica trip
Below on the top row: on my finger a Yellow-faced Grassquit, the Red-billed-Streamertail on a perch and on hubby's finger, White-chinned Thrush, Jamaican Oriole. The middle row: the Jamaican Woodpecker, Mango Hummingbird, Black-faced Grassquits in the bath, Bananaquit, Cattle Egrets. Bottom row: the photos from our resort are the Brown Pelican, Great Egret, White-winged Dove, in flight a Tern with a Gull, Magnificent Frigatebird.
2023: I splitting this partial year up starting with January at Prettyboy the Common Mergansers, February in Cape Henlopen Delaware the Surf Scoter with Grebe and March a Prettyboy lifer the Golden Eagle.
April 2023: I blogged mostly about the birds and critters from Puerto Vallarta
In my mosaic below are the Golden-cheeked Woodpecker, San Blas Jay, female Violet-crowned Hummingbird, Crane Hawk, Streaked-back Oriole, female Varied Bunting, female Blue Grosbeak, male Varied Bunting, another Oriole, Inca Dove, Great Kiskadee, Ferruginous Pygmy Owl, Groove-billed Ani, Mexican Parrotlet, Vermilion Flycatcher, Masked Tityra, Stripe-headed Sparrow.
April 2023 Marietas Islands Blue-footed Boobies
May 2023: a great sighting of the King Rail seen right next to the Blackwater NWR wildlife drive.
June 2023: I posted about our walk at the C&O Canal trail and the Great Falls NP in Potomac Md.
In the mosaic below are the Prothonotary Warbler, Green Heron, Black-crowned Night Heron, Eastern Bluebird, wildflowers, Slider turtles, Great Blue Heron, Double-crested Cormorants, Mallards and Blue-winged Teal.
July 2023: Ireland Birds I have posted so far. All together I saw 21 new birds {lifers} in Ireland. Eventually I will be posting about all my Ireland birds and lifers.
Below top row: Tufted Ducks, European Goldfinch, Hooded Crow, Mute Swans with Mallards, Eurasian Moorhen and a Rook.
Middle Row: Great Tit, Pied Wagtail, Eurasian Oystercatcher times two, Mute Swan and the Eurasian Robin.
Bottom Row: Chaffinch, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Eurasian Magpie, Dunnock, Eurasian Robin and the Song Thrush.
As long as I have participants I will continue my Saturday Critter linky. Thanks again to everyone who links up and shares their critters.
Thanks to all my visitors and for your past and present comments. Stop back to see any replies to your comments. I appreciate everyone who loves and respects wildlife. Thank you for linking up a critter post.
Here is my linky:
I am linking up to Heidrun's Mosaic Monday I hope you can stop by and visit Heidrun and check out the Mosaic Monday post.
122 comments:
Congratulations on your great collection of bird and critter photos! I think your participants are all as grateful as I am for a chance to share our ideas about birds, pets, fictional critters, and more. Many happy returns of the day.
best, mae at maefood.blogspot.com
Congratulations on your 500th Saturday Critters post and your 14TH blog anniversary. That’s fantastic! So many memories displayed every year in these wonderful mosaics, a real pleasure to see. Thank you for hosting Eileen, have a great weekend!
Happy Blog Anniversary, Eileen! I look forward to more of your bird collections in future!
Wow, reaching the 500th Saturday's Critters post is truly remarkable. It's an incredible milestone, and I want to congratulate you on your 14th blog anniversary. The recap of those beautiful photos is a fantastic way to celebrate. I'm extremely grateful for your consistent hosting of this linky party every week. It's one of the most enjoyable ones, I eagerly participate in.
Such an incredible collections of nature and bird photos here!
Congratulations on the anniversary of your blog! I have followed your blog for many years and it is always a great pleasure to see your beautiful pictures. Take care and have a great weekend!
This wonderful party has become a high point of my week. Eileen. You are a true friend. Always bringing peace and joy. God bless you
Happy, happy anniversaries, oh, how time flies!
Thank you for the spin through all the years, good and bad, as life goes...
To the next 500!
9 years since Goldie Girl left, it seems like yesterday. Love the collages, but Goldie Girl's is my favourite.
Dearest Eileen,
Congrats on the honorable milestone reached and happy Saturday to you
X Daniela @ ~ My little old world ~ (Dany)
Hi Eileen,
First of all, congratulations on your 14th blog birthday, I also went to have a look at myself and I also have a blog for over 11 years, how time flies.
I really love your collages, what beautiful photos you have made in all those years, I hope you can continue photographing for a long time.
I wish you a very nice weekend.
Greetings Irma
Hari Om
Happy anniversary, Eileen!!! What an excellent celebratory post. May the joy of nature and critters continue another 500 and beyond 🤗 YAM xx
Congrats on 14 years of blogging. A very nice review of the past years. So many critters have made their appearance on your blog, what a great accomplishment. Thanks for hosting and keep doing what you love doing. Onward you go!
It's always pleasure to visit your website. Always interesting pictures. xoxo
Nibbles is look just tooooo adorable. Good to see you Angel Goldie, we never stop missing them. If I had to guess how long it has been since you moved to FL and Back home, i would have said 2 years. how did the time go so fast.
Dia de festa por aqui!
Parabéns pelas 500 edições do Saturdays Critters e pelos 14 anos desse blog que sempre nos encanta com teus bichos, flores, natureza!
Que venham mais e mais por aqui!
beijos, chica
...congratulations Eileen, when it comes to critters, you are a force to reckon with. We have amassed so many experiences and sights. Thanks for hosting, take care and stay cool.
Well congratulations on your 500th post. It's a lot of work to do 500 and those of us who follow your blog and write our own realize how much time and effort you've put into it.
Happy anniversary! Thanks for faithfully hosting and celebrating critters.
Dear Eileen, I congratulate you on your two anniversaries! It was nice to accompany you virtually through all the years 😍. Every collage / every year tells stories about your travels, the changes, about your lived life. Even if not every experience was pleasant, it is good to be remembered in this way. And your life is full of nature and animals - I think you can't do better than that. Of course, I will continue to be a part of your Saturday Critter linky!
All the best and have a nice weekend, Traude
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A whole lot of memories. Happy blogoversary!
Happy Anniversary on your achievement, Eileen. I wish you many more happy years of blogging. Fantastic photos always, Thank you for your interest and efforts in hosting, which are appreciated. Enjoy the new week!
Yay! Now that's something for us ALL to celebrate! I went back and found posts I had linked in 2015....not sure if I have any earlier but I've sure enjoyed a LOT of parties over the years. Thank you SO much! What a great group of people we have linking each week too. I've gotten to be friends with most of them and can't wait for Saturday to visit. I've said it before and I'll say it again....it's the best party EVER! Sweet hugs from Florida, Diane
Congratulations on your blogversary and the 500th Critters' post! Happy weekend!
Congratulations and best wishes for your long time blogging!
Thanks for sharing these delightful critters. Difficult to say which one is my favourite, but I am partial to the Snow Bunting.
Have a good time blogging and carry on the good job!
Hi Eileen. Wonderful summary of many critters today. Thanks for hosting this great collection!
Wow! I am amazed! Congratulations!
Have a great weekend!
Congratulations, Eileen, on your blog anniversary. Wonderful monthly collages of your critters! Happy day to you.
Congrats on the 2 big anniversaries, Eileen. I always look forward to Saturday's Critters each week. Thanks.
Wow! 14 years ~ and 500 posts ~ Congratulations and Happy Anniversary! Xo
Wishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Congratulations on your blogging anniversaries. You have been a stalwart and faithful photobloggers for years now and a major reason why our little photoblogger niche of the internet has remained drama free and everybody is friendly and cordial to each other.
A long story with many beauitful photos. Congrats on your 500th Saturday critters post and 14 years blogging!
Have a good Sunday.
Love the years going by, I remember all them. Eileen, I love them.
That is a lot of critters and a lot of posts. Congratulations on this milestone.
Thanks for all the beautiful photos.
PS April 2023 was stunning for colorful birds! You've taken some amazing photos over the years! WOW!
Oh Eileen I loved this. Congratulations and thanks for all your posts and for hosting over the years; I loved these mosaics and your descriptions. And I'm so glad I came to look at Saturday Critters today even though I had no critters to link up this week. I will be back someday!!
Happy Anniversary, Eileen! What a marvel you are not only to maintain this site for so long but to piece the past posts together in the way that you have AND knowing all the names of these birds and critters!
Interesting post and very beautifull photographs. Have a very nice and very Happy summer.
Must have taken quite a while to put all these collages together, Eileen. Time does fly, doesn’t it?
What a beautiful celebration of nature, Eileen. Congratulations!
That’s a lot of fine critters! Congratulations on 14 years.
Heartiest Congratulations on 500th Critters post and 14th blog anniversary. Always loved your post. Keep sharing, Keep blogging. Greetings from India.
Good morning Eileen. Congrats on your 500th birthday. That’s a grand old age and well deserved too. Thanks for faithfully hosting every week without fail. It has been a great pleasure to join in on so many weekends and to share photos and ideas around the world of birds and animals. Great memories for you and for your faithful followers. Thank you.
Thank you for participating and for the comment.
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Thank you Denise, for the visit and for the comment.
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I am happy to hear you enjoy Saturday's Critters.
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I appreciate you following my blog, I am happy to be one of your followers too.
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You have been around for a long time too, I do think nature brings us peace and joy.
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Time is flying by. Too fast for me.
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Thank you Jean, for the comment.
I have many happy memories of our Goldie, I feel like she was hear just yesterday.
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Thank you Dany, I appreciate your visit and the comment.
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Thank you Irma, for participating and for the comment.
I hope you continue to blog for a long time too, I agree time does fly.
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I hope to keep going onward.
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It is amazing how fast time is fly by, no stopping it.
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Thank you Chica, I always appreciate your visits and for the comment.
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I am happy for all my wildlife sightings.
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I do like celebrating critters.
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Thank you Diane, for participating all this time and for the comment.
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The Snow Bunting is one of my MANY favorites.
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Thank you Ellen, I appreciate your visits and the comment.
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The critters bring peace and joy, not drama.
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Thank you Bob, for participating all these years and for the comment.
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Thank you again Diane..
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I try to learn all the birds names.
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Nature is grand.
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I do have some great critter memories.
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Congrats on your 500th! A wonderful trip down just a tiny sample of your collection. So many birds and so many great memories.
Thank you Ken! I appreciate all your links over the years and comments. Take care, have a wonderful week.
Happy Blogging anniversary AND Critter Milestone! I'm so glad you shared so many of your photos from the past. I love them all but my favorites have to be cardinals in the snow!
what an awesome trip down memory lane!!! congrats on 500, how wonderful is that. many thanks for hosting us all this time.
enjoy the rest of your weekend!!!
Hi Jeanie,
Thank you for visiting and for the comment. Cardinals do look pretty in the snow.
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Thank you Debbie! I appreciate all your critter links over the years. Take care, have a wonderful week!
Reading and especially viewing the several months with the collages adds wonderful variety in my days in the clinic. I calling your post, dear Eileen, on different days in my week there. It brought good distraction to me.
Many thanks for this lovely Post. I believe, it was a hard work to put all captures together...
...hugs by Heidrun
Good morning Eileen, Happy 14th blog anniversary, I didn't join and post right at the beginning, but I knew a lot of bloggers that did post, and so I always was there commenting on their posts, I just didn't think I could fit in for too long a time. So happy I joined in it's been a few years now not sure how long but you are one of my favorite bloggers to join in. These photos are all wonderful and one really stuck out to me, that cute, sweet and adorable puppy in the blue shopping cart! What a sweetheart. Thank you for being a true blogger for us all! Enjoy your stardom you deserve it!
Felicidade Eileen . Y gracias por llevar tantos años compartiendo las maravillas que la naturaleza nos regala.
A seguir amiga.
Buen domingo y semana.
Un abrazo.
Congratulations, that's a lot of work and dedication. It's funny how connected we become to our little corners of the internet. You must feel very proud of the community you've created. As for the many photos, just gorgeous. The bear tho!! So big!
You have an amazing collection of big and small critters. They are all beautiful.
Congrats on your 500th Saturday Critters post!
It's an epic milestone.
I am so glad we connected as it is always a delight to see your gorgeous photos.
Hugs and blessings
Thank you Heidrun, for participating and for the comment.
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Thank you Karen, for your participation and for the comment.
I always enjoy your critters post and the inspiring quotes you share.
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Jam packed! That's like a year's worth of critters. :)
Beautiful critters Eileen. Have a good week
Much💜love
Gracias por tan preciosas fotografías en un gran reportaje. Me encanta. Abrazos.
Hello Eileen,
Many congratulations on your 14th blog anniversary.
I enjoyed the look back on this post, lovely collages/mosaics.
Wishing you a good week.
All the best Jan
Incredible achievement on your 500th Saturday's Critters post, Congratulations Eileen. I always love seeing how many little wren's you find! You are an amazing contributor to the blogging world and always there with your lovely and supportive comments and have been for the 11 years plus that I have been blogging too. Big hugs and a massive thank you from me.
Wren x
Thank you Sharon, for the link and the comment. Take care, enjoy your day and the week ahead.
Thank you GIllena, for the comment and visit. Take care, enjoy your day and the week ahead.
Thank you Teresa, I appreciate your comment and visit. Take care, enjoy your day and the week ahead.
Thank you Jan, for the comment and visit. Take care, enjoy your day and the week ahead.
Thank you Wren. I appreciate all your visits and comments over the years. Take care, enjoy your day and the week ahead.
Awesome pictures
Thank you for the visit and comment. Take care, enjoy your day and the week ahead.
Congratulations and Happy Anniversary..That's quite an achievement ..a wonderful milestone..Here's to many more!!
Thank you Missy! Have a great week!
such a nice post :)
Thank you Monica, I appreciate all your critter links and comments. Have a happy day and great week ahead.
I tried to write in the clinic. But I only can send comments on the PC... Therefore I`m late here. Congratulation, dear blogfriend with best, best wishes for more posts here. Have fun further with this fantastic linkparty.
...It`s again a pleasure seeing your post at the linkparty. Thank your being part at
MosaicMonday
Hugs by Heidrun
Thank you Heidrun! I enjoyed Mosaic Monday, a fun party. I hope you are recovering and doing well. Take care, have a wonderful weekend.
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